This is a collection of news about border issues, particularly those seen from Arizona and regarding the right to keep and bear arms. Sources often include Mexican media. It's often interesting to see how different the view is from the south.
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 2. - The California Senate today passed a resolution calling on President Barack Obama exercise his executive power to stop the flow of guns from U.S. territory to drug cartels in Mexico.

The initiative of Senator Kevin de Leon, sent this Thursday to the president, was approved after a survivor of violence in Mexico testified before the California Senate floor.

Saul Reyes Salazar, former official of the municipality of Guadalupe, in the northern state of Chihuahua, told senators that he lost six members of his family in the last two years before getting the U.S. government to grant him asylum.

In a telephone interview from Sacramento, Reyes told Notimex that he went before the state Senate because "President Obama may approve the resolution (Senate) and stop the flow of arms to Mexico without having to go through Congress (federal)."

The resolution of De Leon says there is a 'river of guns flowing into Mexico from the United States' and organized crime uses it to commit murder.

Although the resolution does not mention a specific source on the flow of weapons, the senator says he crosses mainly from border states, warns that up to two thousand guns could pass the border daily.

John Lindsay Poland, representing the organization Fellowship of Reconciliation, which supported Salazar Reyes's testimony before the California Senate, said that "many people in America wants a change of policy towards the fight against drugs'.

Lindsay said that on one hand the U.S. government supports the struggle of other countries against drugs, but on the other, and in the case of Mexico, has not stopped the flow of firearms is a key part to stop violence in that country.